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Boscobel Criminal History Checks

Begin a Boscobel criminal record search with the office that made the record. The Boscobel Police Department can release its completed incident reports and CAD notes, available body-camera or dash-camera video, photos, audio, and other responsive documents after review and redaction. It cannot supply another agency's file. Nor does it hold the booking paperwork and media created at Grant County Jail.

A Boscobel report is only one layer. WCCA lists public information from filed Grant County Circuit Court cases. The clerk holds the actual Boscobel court papers. WORCS supplies a separate Wisconsin CIB name check. Use this sequence to avoid treating one blank Boscobel result as a universal answer.

1. Identify whether Boscobel Police, the Grant County Sheriff, or another agency handled the incident before sending a request.
2. Use the Boscobel police PDF form for completed reports, CAD notes, available media, photos, audio, and related city documents.
3. Call Grant County Jail for recent custody and request releasable booking material from the sheriff because Boscobel cannot provide it.
4. Search WCCA with Grant County selected, then contact the circuit clerk when the filed complaint, order, or judgment is needed.
5. Use WORCS for the statewide fingerprint-supported CIB slice and compare identifiers before relying on any name match.

Boscobel Police Request Form

Boscobel uses a two-page police open-records request form revised in June 2025. The requester can locate an item by case number, defendant or suspect, date, and location. Separate fields collect name, address, phone, email, a fuller description, and desired delivery. Examples of delivery include email, pickup, and USPS. The form does not mark those requester fields as required, so a reader should not assume a mandate that the PDF does not state.

Boscobel staff-only boxes track the date received and completed, staff member, fee, and notes. The PDF also does not state how to submit the finished Boscobel form. Call the Boscobel Police Department at 608-375-4122 to confirm whether it should be emailed, mailed, or delivered at 202 W. Oak Street. This small check can prevent a detailed Boscobel request from sitting in the wrong channel.

Records at Boscobel Police Department

The Boscobel Police Department is at 202 W. Oak Street, Boscobel. Its nonemergency number is 608-375-4122, and emergencies use 911. Chief Travis Dregne leads seven full-time officers, including a K9 assignment. Officers are on duty 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Around-the-clock patrol coverage does not necessarily mean that records staff can fill a copy request at any hour, so call before arriving for records service.

The assigned police image shows the official city department page:

Boscobel City Hall is the practical fallback when a request route needs confirmation. It is at 1006 Wisconsin Avenue, Boscobel, WI 53805, with phone 608-375-5001 and email contact@boscobelwisconsin.com. Hours are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Still, Boscobel police-created reports stay with the police custodian. Boscobel City Hall contact information should not be used to imply that its staff can release jail or circuit-court records.

Boscobel Record and Media Fees

The June 2025 form prints a specific local fee schedule. An accident report costs $10. A CD, video, or recorded statement costs $10 per disk or USB. An incident report costs $1.50 per page, including a digital copy. Legal paper service is $25. The form lists an open-records request charge of $1.25, says the first three copies are free, and permits locating labor when that cost exceeds $50. Video may carry an added redaction fee.

Ask Boscobel for an estimate when the request involves long video, several media files, or broad searches. A $1.50 digital page price is unusual enough that it should be confirmed from the current Boscobel form, not replaced with Grant County's general copy schedule. Boscobel and Grant County are separate custodians with different published rules.

Booking and Arrest Records in Boscobel

Boscobel Police creates the local arrest or incident report. When a person is taken to Grant County Jail, the jail creates a separate booking file. That custody record may include intake identifiers, fingerprints or a photo where applicable, classification, bond conditions, and release data. Boscobel's form specifically tells readers that booking paperwork, mugshots, and booking video must be requested from the involved jail.

Grant County offers no online inmate roster or city-by-city booking log. Call the jail at 608-723-6372 or the sheriff's 24-hour main line at 608-723-2157. A focused sheriff request can seek releasable booking material. WCCA may later show a filed CF, CM, or CT case, but it is not an arrest blotter and does not prove current custody. The Grant County arrest search gives the full county fallback chain.

The Boscobel arrest charge can change after review. The district attorney may file another charge, amend the allegation, or decline prosecution. For that reason, Boscobel arrest records should be read as Boscobel allegations tied to a stage in the process, not as convictions.

Boscobel Records Exclude Booking Media

The Boscobel form draws a firm line between Boscobel police media and jail media. The police department may have body-camera video, dash-camera video, photos, audio, and completed Boscobel incident records from its own work. It cannot give out media that was never captured. It also cannot release another agency's file or Grant County Jail's booking paperwork, mugshots, or booking video. Asking Boscobel Police for those items will not turn Boscobel into the jail's records custodian.

Other limits depend on content and timing. Personal identifiers and juvenile identities may be redacted. Release-sensitive active-investigation data can be withheld. Completed reports and CAD notes may still need review before production. A request for video should name the event, date, place, officers or case number when known, and the time span sought. That detail helps the city find the recording and estimate redaction work without claiming that every locator is legally required.

The Boscobel Municipal Court File

Boscobel has no municipal court in Wisconsin's April 2025 municipal-court directory. There is no local municipal judge, city court docket, or Boscobel court file to search. Wisconsin Courts states that ordinance cases go to circuit court where a municipality has no municipal court. State felony and misdemeanor charges also proceed in Grant County Circuit Court.

Use WCCA and select Grant County for the public case index. The result can show the case number and status, filing date, parties, charges, events, disposition, sentence, and financial entries that are open to inspection. It does not provide public filed documents online. The Grant County Clerk of Circuit Court at 130 W. Maple Street in Lancaster keeps those papers and can address copy or certification questions at 608-723-2752.

Boscobel Police Record Workload

City minutes from November 4, 2024 reported 446 police cases year to date, compared with 267 total cases in 2023. Those figures show a change in department workload. They are not a count of crimes, arrests, convictions, or unique people. A police case can concern service, an investigation, a noncriminal event, or other agency work. Labeling all 446 as crimes would distort the official record.

The same care applies to a widely shared Boscobel school-threat post addressed in September 2025 minutes. Boscobel officials described correcting an inapplicable recycled post. Public discussion should not name private subjects or turn an official clarification into an accusation. When a claim is time-sensitive, use the current Boscobel Police channel and preserve the date and scope of the official statement.

Note: Boscobel case counts measure police workload and must not be presented as UCR crime totals or conviction figures.

How Boscobel Records Reach County

A Boscobel event remains split as it moves through the justice system. Police keep their report and available media. Grant County Jail creates custody and booking data. If the district attorney files a charge, the Grant County clerk creates the circuit case and enters public case information into CCAP for WCCA display. Wisconsin CIB may receive qualifying arrest fingerprints and later charging, disposition, sentence, custody, or supervision updates.

Record flow: Boscobel Police Department › Grant County Jail and Circuit Court › Wisconsin Department of Justice Crime Information Bureau

The Boscobel flow is not automatic in every case. A local event without qualifying fingerprints may remain outside CIB. A filed Boscobel case can show in WCCA even when the repository disposition is late. Conversely, a Boscobel police report can exist when no court charge was filed. Compare the source dates and identifiers. Send a correction to Boscobel Police for its report, the clerk for court data, or Wisconsin DOJ through DJ-LE-247 for a challenged CIB result.

Boscobel K9 Record Context

June 2025 city minutes introduced K9 Relic. The official description lists apprehension, narcotics detection, tracking, and article searching. Those uses can lead to Boscobel police records such as an incident narrative, CAD notes, available camera media, photographs, or evidence-related documents. The existence of a Boscobel K9 response does not establish that a crime occurred or that any person was convicted.

Ask for a defined event rather than every K9 record. A date, site, case number, and type of document give the department a workable scope. Some details may be redacted or withheld if an investigation is active, a juvenile is involved, personal identifiers are protected, or release would harm the public interest. Records made by a neighboring agency during a joint response remain with that agency unless Boscobel separately created its own responsive copy.

Boscobel Record Access Rules

Wisconsin Public Records Law presumes access, subject to statutory exceptions and a balancing test that weighs public access against possible harm from release. Boscobel's form translates that rule into practical limits. It allows completed incident reports and CAD notes with redaction, along with available media and documents. It excludes another agency's records, protected personal identifiers, juvenile identities, sensitive active-investigation material, items never captured, and jail booking media.

Court access follows another set of controls. WCCA omits sealed and confidential cases and protects victim, citizen-witness, juror, financial-account, Social Security, and security-code information. The circuit clerk can explain whether a public filed paper exists. Absence from WCCA does not mean every underlying police or court record was destroyed.

Boscobel Record and Landmark History

Boscobel's official history reaches well beyond its present police files. The city sits on the lower Wisconsin River and has long been tied to highway, airport, and freight-rail routes. Its municipal utility dates to 1899. Those transport and civic threads help place older city records that may be held in municipal or historical collections rather than in a modern criminal-history system.

The city's official attractions and museums page documents Boscobel's landmarks:

The native-limestone Boscobel Hotel, also called Central House, dates to 1863 and hosted the 1898 meeting that led to the Gideon Society. The 1857 depot served as a transport and military marshaling point for more than 2,000 Union enlistees. GAR Hall may be Wisconsin's only surviving GAR meeting hall. Old Rock School and the 389-acre Boscobel Bluffs and McNamee Bluff add more local context. These historical sources serve a different purpose from a police or court record check, but they matter for genealogy and community research.